Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: wedding

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wedding	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wedding	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wedding	det
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 in	dep
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 in	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 in	advmod
8	in	in	ADV	_	4 wedding	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 in	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wedding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the wedding					tree rules
2	is	infinitive					day	in, over property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it went on nearly two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 two	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it				month		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, it went on nearly three months and everybody was still partying at the end of it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 partying	cc
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 partying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 partying	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 partying	advmod
13	partying	party	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 partying	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it				month		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	party	past · progressive	everybody				at the end of end; still		tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it went on nearly three months with feasts every single night, mad innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 feasts	case
10	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 innit	amod
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	mad innit			month; night	with feasts	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with feast=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it went on nearly three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it				month		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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